Gemini Links 17/03/2024: Winter Can't Hurt Us Anymore and Playstation Plus
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Syzygy
He is one of my favorite artists to come across online. I love his soft, organic lines, and his pieces always have a bit of a confusing simplicity about them (those involving crude delineations of rooms are the most interesting to me for this reason). Something about his need to point out that this lady is in a room with that crab makes the first piece infinitely more thought provoking. I hope what I mean by a confusing simplicity comes across. Sometimes they also just introduce a novel enough aesthetic conflict -- dainty, naked, pale women and mean-looking, inhuman, skinny-limbed insects and crustaceans, often keeping each other company (this crab piece implies some enmity between the two figures, but most of his art does not presuppose that one is scared of the other). You don't see that a lot.
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Quintillions of untold stories
Sometimes I wonder how many stories have gone untold, merely because they aren't bound by the nature of physical reality.
Occam's razor is generally told as "the best explanation is usually the simplest." I first heard of the more advanced and deeply ideological version, often called Newton's flaming laser sword (though Newton had little to do with it) as a child, which argues that questions not answerable with the scientific method are not worth answering--that is, the right answer is always the one that can be explained through cause, effect and observation.
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WHAT'S WITH THE CAPITAL LETTERS???
Four or five people in my life commit one of the, in my not so humble opinion, unpardonable sins of internet usage, THEY USE AN OVERABUNDANCE OF CAPITAL LETTERS IN EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO.
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Politics and World Events
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Yuhak
Cho Hoon was back in Seoul.
Two years ago, when Hoon left Seoul for high school in Pittsburgh, he was told to never come back unless he could speak English fluently. No one knew how to test "fluent English," but Hoon understood the weight on his shoulders. His parents had borrowed money from a bunch of family members so that he could yuhak in the United States.
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Technology and Free Software
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Winter Can't Hurt Us Anymore
I still work remotely, and feel blessed for that. Well. Technically my contract says one day a month in the office. So my coworkers (most of whom, being developers, have opted for similar arrangements) have all sort of decided to coordinate our mandatory one day a month, and after we scan in at the office, go out for lunch somewhere nice.
Yesterday that was a little Vietnamese restaurant, the kind of place that looks faded and worn down, but the food's amazing. We all settled in, ordering pho, spring and salad rolls, deluxe vermicelli, Vietnamese coffee, tea and water. Lunch ran a bit late, as it often does, given there's usually a dozen of us. But it was really nice to see people, all of us griping about the commute, but happy to see each other.
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Cloud gaming review using Playstation Plus
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Cloud gaming review using Playstation Plus
While testing the cloud gaming service GeForce Now, I've learned that PlayStation also had an offer.
Basically, if you use a PlayStation 4 or 5, you can subscribe to the first two tiers to benefit some services and games library, but the last tier (premium) adds more content AND allows you to play video games on a computer with their client, no PlayStation required. I already had the second tier subscription, so I paid the small extra to switch to premium in order to experiment with the service.
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woopsie... i forgorrr
Lexaloffle (creator of popular fantasy console PICO-8) has released picotron! I've been following the development for a while now... and as soon as it released i mashed that buy button... And it looks pretty cool so far, I've been messing around with it a little, a couple test programs, it's more of a fantasy workstation than a console as they say in the 'marketing' and it kinda shows, it's way more open to edit it's inner workings and such, and essentially each part of the system is just a lua script that you can open and edit (in picotron of course!) And seeing as it does seem to be capable of web connections... one idea i have is absolutely a gemini browser, gemini plus picotron, match made in heaven.
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Internet/Gemini
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I will not write a manifesto
Just like a lot of new folk in Geminispace the thought came to me to write this long drawn out manifesto of what I hate about HTTPland and how much I love things "smolweb." A perusal around Geminispace revealed that this would truly be a duplicative waste of effort. Without any modesty I have nothing new to say that has not already been better said by others.
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Programming
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Ambivalent about code linters
It’s interesting to me that I am trained as a scientist, and am still employed doing largely “scientific” work, but my approach is much closer to that of a craftsperson described above. I’m not unique in this: in my own experience, many scientific fields (within academia, at least) are full of craftspeople; the master/apprentice relationship is so common that it’s hard to forget that academic culture is rooted in Medieval Europe (the robes help with that, too).
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.